¶ “People power: how households can help the energy crisis” • With rising electricity prices and dire predictions about summertime blackouts and brownouts, Australia is widely understood to be in grip of an energy crisis. But as politicians argue about what to do next, people are quietly making their own difference. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

¶ “President Trump’s War on Science” • From Day 1, the White House and its lackeys in certain federal agencies have been waging what amounts to a war on science. In…